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Canyon extends deal with van der Poel until 2034
Canyon Bicycles has announced a ten-year agreement with World Road Cycling Champion Mathieu Van der Poel, the “longest-known contract in modern-day cycling,” said the brand. Canyon’s partnership with the 29-year-old Dutch rider started in late 2017 and will now run until the end of 2034. Van der Poel rides a ...
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Canyon Bicycles expands management team with top industry talent
Source: Canyon Bicycles GmbH Chad Manuell With the appointment of industry expert Chad Manuell as Chief Technology Officer, German DTC provider Canyon Bicycles is expanding its management team and, according to the company, “strengthening its focus on growth and innovation for customers.” Manuell will primarily be ...
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IperionX and Canyon collaborate on recycled titanium bike components
IperionX Limited, a Nasdaq-listed developer of low-carbon titanium for advanced industries such as aerospace, electric vehicles and 3-D printing, has partnered with Canyon Bicycles GmbH to develop a more sustainable titanium supply chain for the bicycle industry by producing bicycle components using IperionX’s 100-percent recycled and low-carbon titanium. This effort ...
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Canyon expands leadership team with financial expert
Source: Canyon Bicycles Karim Bohn German DTC company Canyon Bicycles GmbH has appointed industry newcomer Karim Bohn as its new chief financial officer. As a member of the executive leadership team, he will be responsible for the financial management of Canyon as well as all Canyon-owned companies ...
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Canyon appoints general manager for Asia
Source: Canyon Hideki Mochizuki German DTC bicycle supplier Canyon Bicycles GmbH has announced that Hideki “Mochi-san” Mochizuki, a veteran of the bicycle industry, has joined the company as general manager for the Asia Pacific region. He will join Canyon’s executive leadership team and will be responsible for ...
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Canyon Bicycles appoints former road bike athlete as COO
Source: Canyon Alison Jones, new Canyon COO As part of the company’s executive leadership team, German DTC bicycle supplier Canyon Bicycles GmbH has brought Alison Jones on board. She fills the open position of chief operations officer (COO). In this role, the former road bike athlete will ...
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Canyon receives reported $30m in new investment
Various press outlets are reporting that Canyon Bicycles has received an estimated $30 million in new capital from two investors. One is LRMR Ventures, the investment group run out of Akron, Ohio, by the NBA player LeBron James and his longtime associate Maverick Carter. (James took a minority interest in ...
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Canyon Bicycles hires Ben Hillsdon as new global communications manager
Source: Canyon Bicycles Ben Hillsdon German DTC bicycle supplier Canyon Bicycles GmbH has hired Ben Hillsdon as its new global communications manager. He will be based out of a new Canyon location in Amsterdam. Hillsdon brings more than ten years of experience in public and private sector ...
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Former Jordan Brand GM to become CEO of Canyon Bicycles
On March 1, bike industry newcomer Nicolas de Ros Wallace will join German DTC company Canyon Bicycles GmbH as its new CEO. He replaces CFO Winfried Rapp, who has served as interim CEO since October 2021 following the departure of Armin Landgraf. Rapp will continue to be a member of ...
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Canyon Bicycles CEO to leave the company
Source: Canyon Taking over as CEO on an interim basis on October 1: CFO Winfried Rapp Canyon Bicycles CEO Armin Landgraf has decided to leave the D2C bicycle supplier for personal reasons at the end of September. He agrees to continue to assist the company as an ...
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Changes in Canyon Bicycles’ communications team
After four and a half years as global communications manager at Canyon Bicycles GmbH , Thorsten Lewandowski will officially leave the German D2C provider at the end of June, but is currently already on residual leave. Lewandowski will, however, remain with the industry. We expect more information in July. ...
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Canyon welcomes new CFO
Source: Canyon Winfried Rapp While current business is humming along with new records, German D2C bicycle supplier Canyon Bicycles has announced a change in its top management. Winfried “ Winni ” Rapp will assume the position of CFO. At the same time, ...
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Canyon launches in Canada
Following its successful entry into the U.S. market in 2017, and just days after Belgian investor group Groupe Bruxelles Lambert ( GBL ) and co-investor Tony Fadell invested in the company, German bicycle supplier Canyon Bicycles – claiming to be the “world’s leading DTC bicycle brand“ – has ...
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Bike stocks 2020: Corona gives the bicycle industry a turbo boost
Same same but different – 2020 has been a real rollercoaster. Not only for the world economy but for each individual: Corona set the course. 2020 saw the most extreme stock market movements ever. What it finally taught us above all: whether economic, trade or other wars, political crises or ...
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Canyon temporarily pauses shipments to the U.K.
Canyon Bicycles has announced that it will not ship orders to the U.K. from Dec. 19 until Jan. 11 in connection with Brexit transition and due to the “uncertainty and potential bottlenecks at the border.” The company is currently modifying its processes in order to comply with new legislation as ...
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German bike company Canyon bought by Belgian Adidas shareholder
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert ( GBL ), a major Belgian-based investment company, has agreed to take over majority control of Canyon Bicycles , the German bike producer known for its direct-to-consumer approach. Roman Arnold , a former supplier of bike components who founded the brand in 2002, will reinvest a ...